William Bagnall, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Bagnall

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1882

Date of Death: 28-May-1950

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About William Bagnall

  • William Roy Clifford Bagnall (10 April 1882 – 28 May 1950) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician. He was born at Turua to sawmill owner Albert Edward Bagnall and Emma, née Brent.
  • He moved to Sydney in 1903, where he immediately became involved in the union movement, being the first secretary and a foundation delegate of the Labor Council of New South Wales, representing the Process Engravers' Union (Printing Trades Federation Council from 1909).
  • Around 1907 he married Ruby Fitzgerald at Enmore, with whom he had five children.
  • He worked as a process engraver during this period.
  • In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for St George.
  • In the 1917 split Bagnall, a supporter of conscription, joined the Nationalist Party.
  • He continued to represent St George with the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, but he was defeated in 1925; five months later he returned to the Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by Thomas Ley's resignation.
  • He left the Assembly in 1927 and managed Hoyts theatre from 1927 to 1944.
  • Bagnall died at Mosman in 1950.

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